{"id":501201,"date":"2026-10-19T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501201\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T17:06:08","slug":"a-patch-to-protect-and-serve-should-not-mean-we-ignore-wrongdoing-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501201\/","title":{"rendered":"A patch to \u2018protect and serve\u2019 should not mean we ignore wrongdoing \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cPolice officer may see dismissal of case\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/10\/12\/chula-vista-police-officer-granted-misdemeanor-diversion-in-on-duty-fatal-crash-case\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 12<\/a>): What are the odds any sheriff or police officer in San Diego County will ever face prosecution for any action resulting in the death of a citizen? With the judge\u2019s diversion of the case involving a Chula Vista police officer running a red light and killing a motorcyclist, the odds continue to be long \u2014 very long.<\/p>\n<p>Holding sworn officers to the same standard of the public for an action resulting in the demise of another person seems more improbable. Impunity seems to be the word.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Gillchrest, Otay Mesa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cPolice officer may see dismissal of case\u201d (Oct. 12): What are the odds any sheriff or police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-501201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}